2002: May (79th)

What else happened this year? Iraq war stuff and the war on terror. No thanks.

What is the plot - in one sentence? We follow a lonely and strange young woman as she looks for love.

I don't have time, just spoil it for me? She’s more than merely strange, especially after being jilted by her two lovers. She hacks up several people and uses their parts to create a best friend. At the end of it, it starts stroking her face. Her mother had told her ‘if you can’t find a friend, make one’ when she was young.

What is the meaning of the title? Her name is May, easy one!

This is the beast she's made by the movie's end (spoilers for that sentence). She's got pretty girls legs, dreadlock guys arms, and dreamboys hands. She's going to have some fun.

Anything that's not aged well? Does a woman get slapped around? She isn’t slapped around, but she’s treated pretty badly. And keeps biting guys she kisses.

What’s not aged well: answering machine messages, what a grim time to be alive.

There’s also a little bit of lesbian panic – Anna Faris is a predatory lesbian, who spends a lot of time flirting with and then seducing May. She later finds a lover, who is an attractive woman, but is dressed in prime 2002 garbage. She looks terrible, there’s a guy with dreadlocks that May gets the arms of for her monster, and he looks like shit too. It’s interesting that the fashion is as stupid as stuff from the 90s, and 80s now.

Any thoughts? I went in expecting a horror movie, and it’s more a psychological thriller. What’s interesting is that though she’s weird, and awkward as hell, you spend the whole movie feeling sorry for her, even though she’s a murderer with a hand fetish.

There are general themes of upbringing (her mother made her a creepy doll which appears to whisper to her at some stages), and there’s a lot of unrequited love. What’s probably more telling is… how much happened, and how much is her imagination? Did she kill that cat? Did those kids crawl around on broken glass?

Would you recommend this? Interesting, for sure. Not really a horror movie, but an interesting psychological thing with some horror elements to it.

Final thoughts? She has a huge hand fetish. She has that fetish sated by a handsome dreamboy. Lucky girl. This was fine.

May herself is also pretty, but she's tied her hair back and is wearing glasses, which makes her weird looking for the movie. why not?

79 Gone already. Where does the time go? You can click here to read more.